A null geodesic is both a null curve and a geodesic. In geometric optics, light rays follow null geodesics.
A radial null geodesic in a spherically symmetric spacetime has zero angular momentum and fixed angular coordinates. Its projection is a null curve of the two-dimensional radial Lorentzian metric.

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